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Pole Position Season 1 Episodes

  • 1984-1985
  • 1 Season
  • CBS
  • Animation, Action & Adventure, Family, Science Fiction
  • TV-Y7
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A loose adaptation of the video game series "Pole Position" by Namco. The show features the Darretts, a family of stunt-driving crime fighters, who covertly investigate and thwart crimes while operating under the front of a traveling show known as the "Pole Position Stunt Show". Their show is sponsored by the United States government, who is the actual employer of the family. Following the apparently accidental death of their parents (who were the team's original field agents), the young adult siblings Tess and Dan act as their replacements. Tess is the responsible and coldly logical sibling, while Dan is the emotional and hot-headed one. The two play a parental role to their preteen sister Daisy Darrett, who tags along in their travels. Their wheel-chair bound uncle Dr. Zachary Darrett is the engineer who provides their technologically advanced vehicles and equipment. The series did not feature recurring villains, but Tess had a personal enemy in the person of her backstabbing former love interest Greg Dumont.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

13 Episodes 1984 - 1984

Episode 1

The Code

Sat, Sep 15, 198430 mins

A rogue agent Greg Dumont, is hired by a criminal mastermind by the name of Alex Vance to steal the control codes to Roadie and Wheels in an attempt to get his hands on the high-tech cars and use the A.I.s to destroy Pole Position.

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Episode 2

The Canine Vanishes

Sat, Sep 22, 198430 mins

The team goes to the Florida Everglades looking for Pandora, a lost dog that is carrying an important vaccine. They must find the dog before enemy agents gets their hands on her.

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Episode 3

The Chicken Who Knew Too Much

Sat, Sep 29, 198430 mins

The team protects a chicken, given to them as a gift from an archaeologist. But when a bad guy shows up to abduct the fowl, the team must figure out the bird's link to finding a hidden treasure.

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Episode 4

Strangers on the Ice

Tue, Oct 9, 198430 mins

The team is assigned to deliver satellite equipment to a mountain research station but the equipment is stolen, and a snowstorm thwarts the kids' attempts at getting it back.

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Episode 5

The Race

Sat, Oct 13, 198430 mins

The team enters a race suspected to be used to smuggle a computer chip out of the country.

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Episode 6

The Thirty-Nine Stripes

Sat, Oct 20, 198430 mins

The team is assigned to protect museum paintings that are being mysteriously vandalized; the cut pieces secretly contain a diagram for an advanced computer chip.

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Episode 7

The Thirty-One Cent Mystery

Sat, Oct 27, 198430 mins

Kuma uncovers a plot to steal an Indian totem hidden somewhere at Mount Rushmore. He tries to warn the others with a quarter, nickel, and a penny all of which have the same presidents as the monument: Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.

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Episode 8

Dial M for Magic

Sat, Nov 3, 198430 mins

The team gets stuck in a weird town controlled by a strange illusionist.

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Episode 9

The Bear Affair

Sat, Nov 10, 198430 mins

Daisy receives a talking teddy bear which is pointing out mysterious clues about a factory. Tess and Dan investigate the factory hoping to discover clues.

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Episode 10

To Clutch a Thief

Sat, Nov 17, 198430 mins

Dan and Tess are invited to their hometown to celebrate a queen's pageant where Tess is made carnival queen, but the queens amulet she wears is a fake made of candy as the real one goes missing.

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Episode 11

The Secret

Sat, Nov 24, 198430 mins

The team is stranded in an unfriendly town and harassed by the local sheriff. The unwelcoming treatment leads the team to suspect criminal activity at the town's gold mine and that the sheriff may be involved.

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Episode 12

Shadow of a Trout

Sat, Dec 1, 198430 mins

Uncle Zach is missing, and the kids find out they are suspects in his disappearance.

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Episode 13

The Trouble with Kuma

Sat, Dec 8, 198430 mins

The kids go to an island threatened by a tsunami to rescue Dr. Lungo (Kuma's creator). They find that Lungo's shady assistants are trying to kill him and steal his genetic research.

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